Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] maint.mk: Split long argument lists

2019-01-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/13/18 9:34 AM, Roman Bolshakov wrote: > $(VC_LIST_EXCEPT) is usually expanded into arguments for a command. > When a project contains too many, some operating systems can't pass all > the arguments because they hit the limit of arguments. FreeBSD and macOS > are known to have the limit of

[PATCH v3 1/2] maint.mk: Split long argument lists

2018-12-13 Thread Roman Bolshakov
$(VC_LIST_EXCEPT) is usually expanded into arguments for a command. When a project contains too many, some operating systems can't pass all the arguments because they hit the limit of arguments. FreeBSD and macOS are known to have the limit of 256k of arguments. More on the issue: